Peach and Plum Do Not Speak

Chapter 2: Parents

The road was bumpy and the car vibrated. Tao Zhenzhen opened his eyes dazedly, only to realize that he had fallen asleep just now.

After the funeral was completely dealt with, she acted decisively, locked the house in her hometown, left a key to the elders who had known each other since childhood, and asked her to help with the cooking, so she called a car in the village and drove to the high-speed rail station.

She glanced out of the car window. The weather was fine today. It was a sunny day. The sky was high and blue, and the sky was blue. It is rare to see such a sky in Beicheng.

She took a few more glances, retracted her gaze, and landed on the sleeping little girl beside her.

Porcelain white skin, black soft hair, it’s like her. As for the eyebrows that look more like her or look like another person. She hadn’t looked closely. In fact, she has deliberately ignored her existence all these years. The amount of information she knew was what her father told her on the phone, and she was able to recall many details even if she sifted through it intentionally or unintentionally.

“I can’t speak yet at the age of two. Fortunately, I walk more vigorously.”

“Named An Zhi, I hope she can be at peace with everything she encounters in the future, and she will follow it.”

“I can talk, but I don’t like to talk much. In order to make her talk more, I spent time making her recite Tang poems that day, just like you.”

“The child is very smart, but it’s too quiet… Would you like to say a few words to her?”

Every time she was silent, after listening, she diverted the topic. Father would be quiet for a few seconds over there, and then follow her topic.

Occasionally, he would joke: “I don’t know who is with such a quiet and introverted personality?”

She didn’t know that she wasn’t this temperament herself. She had been trying to be strong since she was a child, she loved to communicate with people, and she loved expressing her desires. After skipping grades in primary school, he was admitted to the best middle school in town, and he was admitted to one of the best universities in the country in the college entrance examination, in Beicheng, the imperial capital.

If it wasn’t for accidentally meeting Chen Muqi and having a child after being confused for a while…

She didn’t intend to. At that time, she was only a freshman, her dream had not yet set off, and she never thought about being an unmarried mother, and Chen Muqi was a coward. Hearing that she was pregnant, his face turned pale, and he didn’t even think about it. Dare to say whether or not to have a child, his parents looked at her as if she were going to be dead on to their son in vain.

Only her father stood up and said, “The child belongs to the Tao family.”

Tao Zhenzhen’s eyes were sore, her father was the most responsible man she had ever seen. He took himself home at that time, not afraid of gossip, and never said a single word about her. After the child was born, he entrusted the student who is now working in the police station to the Tao family’s hukou. Love this child as you love her.

And she herself was unwilling to face this child, and she didn’t even take the initiative to mention her. Because she is the dark history left behind by her unclear knowledge, the condescending and contemptuous eyes of Chen Muqi’s parents, and it is she who changed her from “other people’s child” to “a depraved teenage pregnant girl who doesn’t love herself” “.

Thinking of this, Tao Zhenzhen felt irritable in her heart. She glanced at the child again and found that she had woken up at some point and was staring at her quietly.

The pupils of those eyes were dark and watery. The almond eyes and thin eyebrows gave her a very familiar feeling.

The impetuousness in her heart was a little thicker, and it really was the flesh that fell from her body. No matter how she denied it, she couldn’t hide the fact.

The child didn’t speak, just looked at her so quietly.

She turned her face away.

Arriving at the high-speed rail station in silence, Tao Zhenzhen pushed open the door and got out of the car. The driver was a fellow from the same town, a black and thin young man who had brought her a suitcase, but was unwilling to accept her money.

Tao Zhenzhen was wearing a white skirt, with waist as waist and chest as chest. The beauty was like a flowing light, attracting countless eyes.

The simple and honest young man peeked at her several times before leaving contentedly.

The car drove away, leaving behind two women, one large and one small. The big one has tired eyes, his hands are on the suitcase, and the small one is young and tender, carrying a small rabbit schoolbag.

Before entering the high-speed rail station, Tao Zhenzhen glanced back, knowing that she would never come back.

She raised her head and said, “Let’s go.”

Tao Anzhi carried a small schoolbag on her back and chased after her with small steps. She was very thin and small at the age of six. She had never been to such a place, but felt it was noisy and unfamiliar. She looked up at the woman, and she held the suitcase in one hand. The other hand is empty, the fingers are soft white.

She waited for a long time until she got into the carriage, but she didn’t see the hand reaching out to pull her.

They sat in the second-class seats, and there were not many people. Next to them was a young couple with a three- or four-year-old boy. The little boy was not used to driving, and he vomited shortly after driving. He looked at his parents with red eyes, and his mother comforted him: “It’s okay, baby, my mother asked the flight attendant to clean it up.”

His father patted his head, and after helping with the cleaning, he held him on his lap to watch cartoons of cat and mouse with him, and his mother smiled and fed him water.

Tao Anzhi watched them for a long time, but she couldn’t hold back and glanced aside. The woman was slightly sideways, a pair of sunglasses covered a large area of her face, and she fell asleep long ago.

An Zhi turned his head, hugged the small schoolbag on his chest, paused, and buried his head in it.

After two days in Beicheng, Tao Zhenzhen finally got in touch with Chen Muqi. It took her three phone calls to make him fully digest the fact that “one of them must take over the child”.

After finally making an appointment to discuss the meeting, she put down the phone and let out a long sigh.

She graduated this year, passed the GRE with high marks, and was even accepted to a good college in California.

She finally walked on the path she wanted to walk, no one could stop her, she had to do her best to let Chen Muqi take the child away.

So she’s cruel, she admits, and she refuses to make too much eye contact with the kid. The child was also as quiet as her father said, not noisy. Do whatever you want, and eat whatever you want. It was so quiet that there was no sense of existence.

Except after wearing the new clothes she bought, she pulled her sleeves and whispered, “It’s too big…”

Tao Zhenzhen glanced at it, the sleeves were a lot longer, and the skirt was too long. She frowned, and the salesperson clearly told her that it was worn by a six-year-old child.

Tao Zhenzhen looked at her and guessed that the child was indeed not quite like a six-year-old, and was too short.

She was speechless for a moment, squatted down, rolled up two rolls of her sleeves on both sides, and said after a pause, “I just want to buy a bigger one so I can wear it longer…”

Then I don’t know why I added another sentence: “Children grow up fast…so clothes are usually bought big…”

Tao Anzhi looked at her and nodded his head: “Grandpa also said the same…”

Tao Zhenzhen paused, not knowing the warm feeling in his heart. After a few seconds, she said: “Grandpa has just left, we can’t wear too bright clothes… wait… before buying…”

In the end there is no way to say “I’ll buy it for you later”.

Because the promise is said to be fulfilled. It can only be so confusing.

A little light flashed in Tao Anzhi’s eyes, her small mouth was upturned, and she tapped her little head.

Tao Zhenzhen stood up uncomfortably.

At this moment, the doorbell rang, giving her the steps just in time.

Tao Zhenzhen went over to open the door.

Tao Anzhi stuck his head out from behind her and carefully looked at the person coming. He is 1.75 meters tall, with slightly long curly hair, a white t-shirt, a big hole on one side of his jeans, and a little ink. The whole person is clean and handsome, because he is too thin and has a weak literary and artistic temperament.

The skin is very white, even comparable to Tao Zhenzhen. When he met her eyes, he scratched his hair and smiled awkwardly: “Hi…”

Tao Zhenzhen’s indifferent expression was mixed with a bit of melancholy, she nodded: “Come in…”

As soon as Chen Muqi stepped in, she saw a four-year-old girl standing in the living room, wearing a black dress with a white bow tie, looking up at him with curious water-black eyes, her cheeks puffy. Like a small, thin bud that just emerged from the water in a spring pond.

Chen Muqi took a step hesitantly and bent down.

Tao Zhenzhen’s voice sounded: “An Zhi, this is your father.”

Chen Muqi seemed to have been stung by something suddenly, rubbed his hands, and forced a smile. He said dryly, “Hi… An Zhi…”

An Zhi blinked, rubbed her little hands on the hem of her skirt, and just opened her mouth when she saw the man in front of him twist his face abruptly.

She stayed for a while. .

Chen Muqi was so embarrassed that he wanted to find a place to get in. What are you kidding? He felt that he hadn’t grown up or lived very clearly, and he was about to become a “father” all of a sudden.

Not all at once, he was already a father, but Tao Zhenzhen was brought back by her father that year, and he didn’t hear much news after that. He experienced the initial trepidation, and slowly put it on the shelf. Over time, it seemed that he really forgot about it.

Just kidding, he didn’t even think about having children or getting married. His two older brothers were already married, and he had four children. His parents and his brother were all businessmen and rough people. Only he wanted to be a painter since he was very young, and even changed his name to Mu Qi. Qi is Qi Baishi.

It’s really unfortunate to say, it’s not just a simple sexual act, he has safety measures, who knows that ‘safety measures” are not reliable at all, his ‘seed” took root in Tao Zhenzhen’s fertile land, and when Now, it has become the living “fruit” in front of me that cannot be ignored.

Before coming, Chen Muqi thought with trepidation, Tao Zhenzhen’s father heard that she was dead, wouldn’t she push the child to herself?

In other words, Tao Zhenzhen’s guardianship conditions are much better than his. After graduating from a prestigious university with excellent grades, he will definitely find a good job and take care of the children.

And he Chen Muqi, although his family is rich, it is also his parents. He now receives living expenses from his parents every month. A well-known painter in the industry needs to pay 200,000 yuan a year in tuition to learn painting, not to mention the need to go to collect the wind from time to time. There is no time or condition to take care of a child.

Before he came, he thought about so many things over and over again, and then he felt calm.

Yes, the kid must not follow him.